[U-Boot] Booting kernel from NAND flash on AT91SAM9 custom board using fsload

Nicholas Kinar n.kinar at usask.ca
Tue Mar 29 22:57:01 CEST 2011


On 29/03/2011 2:46 PM, Scott Wood wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 14:35:26 -0600
> Nicholas Kinar<n.kinar at usask.ca>  wrote:
>
>> I have two additional questions associated with booting the kernel from
>> NAND flash on my custom hardware:
>>
>> (1) Does replacing jffs2_1pass.c with jffs2_nand_1pass.c in the fs/jffs2
>> directory influence the robustness of the fsload code?
>>
>> (2) Does it take a long time to load the Linux kernel from a JFFS2
>> filesystem on NAND flash using the fsload command (i.e.
>> http://old.nabble.com/Performance-in-Booting-Linux-w--Device-Tree-via-U-Boot-out-of-JFFS2-on-NAND-td15879327.html),
>> or has this been cleaned up in the current u-boot-2010.09 code?
> I haven't used U-Boot's jffs2 support (the previous answer was from reading
> the source code), so I can't help here, sorry.
>
> -Scott
>
>

That is fine, Scott; your previous answer was extremely helpful, and I 
think that I am now well on my way to booting the Linux kernel from NAND 
flash on my new embedded system.

Thanks again,

Nicholas


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